Sick animal can still be butchered.

[Disturbed]

Unlike crops when animals get sick and die of it they can still be butchered for the ressources. So this can only cut your herdes groth down but unlike the crops you can still gather the food of them. This feels very wrong. Who would eat the meat of a sick animal?

[Shampoo+3]

People usually ate and eat what they can get. The massive food abundance of todays high developed countries is a rather new thing.

[General Malaise]

It wouldn't hurt anyone would it? If it died of Plague, and you cooked it - it would be fine. You don't see maggots turn their nose up at anything.

There must be animals killed for food every day, that have one disease or another - some with diseases that might kill them. You'd never ever know - they aren't tested for every disease as they enter the slaughter house.

[kampfer91]

If a crop catch disease , it will die and give no yield before grain can be harvested . A ded cow however , still have meat . Pretty sure ancient people not that picky when it come to eating....

[WhackaWham]

I mean there could be something wrong with the meat but you have the advantage of looking at this retrospectively.

In our modern day we have a far larger understanding of bacteria than in ancient times. They wouldn't know what the f*#k bacteria is let alone understanding it.

As previous post have stated, likely all they would see in a dead animal is - " an all you can eat buffet"

• Perhaps the devs could be extra devious and add a sickness roll chance to villagers eating "sick meat" Mwah Mwah Mwah...

[Blondel58]

Originally posted by kampfer91:

If a crop catch disease , it will die and give no yield before grain can be harvested . A ded cow however , still have meat . Pretty sure ancient people not that picky when it come to eating....

That could be really thrilling - and annoying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism

[bb 80]

Chicken meat and many other meats are full of bacteria. If you don't cook them you have a high chance of getting seriously ill.